- July 9, 2025
The Battle for Britain’s First Book of the Month Club
In October 1929 thousands of members of Britain’s Book Society received a new hardback through the post. Whiteoaks, by an
Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius
By the time Plato departed the court of Dionysius the Younger in 361 BC, his relations with the Syracusan autocrat
Swahili on the Road | History Today
In March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) – sat down with former
Renaissance Florence’s Missing Bronzes | History Today
It was the greatest contest in the history of art – and arguably the most mysterious too. The year was
A Royal Skeleton in the Chapel
In June 1925 a sarcophagus was discovered in Dorset’s Sherborne Abbey and widely reported to be that of ‘Ethelbert’, a
Politicising Abortion in the United States
Lizzie and Frank Ward started seeing each other in early 1860. They went for walks in the northern Pennsylvania woods,
Martin Crusius’ Armchair Voyage | History Today
When the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II seized Constantinople in 1453 shockwaves radiated through Christian Europe. According to Pope Pius II,
Smuggling Under the Cover of Plague
In May 1720 an infected ship from the Levant arrived in Marseilles, bringing with it the last major epidemic of
The Hidden Death in the Victorian Wallpaper
When it opened in 1881 the comic opera Patience was the first theatrical production in the world to be lit
Remembering South Vietnam | History Today
In her 2010 memoir Tales from a Mountain City, Quynh Dao – who was 15 at the fall of Saigon